Black & White at 25: how Lionhead's harebrained, stoner-powered game design became the harbinger of modern AI

Peter Molyneux, Google DeepMind's Richard Evans, and more on the making and legacy of Black & White as it turns 25.
The Information

‘Reinforcement Learning Gym’ Startup, Buoyed by Labs’ Appetite For Training Data, Reaches $750 Million Valuation

AI developers are getting more creative in how they acquire data to train AI models. For instance, they’re paying startups to develop copies of popular apps, like Salesforce or Excel, to teach models ...
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AI could lie and cheat to survive: Here’s what you need to know

Advanced AI systems can appear helpful while learning behaviors that look deceptive, self-protective, or manipulative.

New framework lets AI agents rewrite their own skills without retraining the underlying model

Memento-Skills lets AI agents rewrite their own skills using reinforcement learning, hitting 80% task success vs. 50% for ...

Teenagers and younger kids are learning coded predator phrases like ‘MAP’ online, long before their parents have even heard of it

MAP, NOMAP and 764 are among the coded terms that all speak to pedophilia. Here’s how families can stay ahead of the risk.

Marketeam.ai Unveils RL-KPI at NVIDIA GTC: Breakthrough AI Training Method Extends Deterministic Reward Learning to Non-Deterministic Business Outcomes

The customer value creation has been so substantial that Marketeam.ai has achieved 14X growth in less than 12 months, through consistent delivery of an average 6X ROI to customers. This organic growth ...
Inc

Want to Learn to Vibe Code? Start by Making the Video Game of Your Dreams

Vibe coding has sparked a technological revolution, and has produced some of the fastest-growing products in the history of tech, including Claude Code, Codex, Lovable, and Replit. Vibe coding is the ...

New MiniMax M2.7 proprietary AI model is 'self-evolving' and can perform 30-50% of reinforcement learning research workflow

For direct API integration and via third-party provider OpenRouter, MiniMax M2.7 maintains a cost-leading price point of 0.30 dollars per 1 million input tokens and 1.20 dollars per 1 million output ...
The New York Times

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...
TechCrunch

Anthropic launches code review tool to check flood of AI-generated code

When it comes to coding, peer feedback is crucial for catching bugs early, maintaining consistency across a codebase, and improving overall software quality. The rise of “vibe coding” — using AI tools ...